{"id":641086,"date":"2026-03-05T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/641086\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:32:33","slug":"ant-edwards-kon-knueppel-and-the-generation-coming-for-steph-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/641086\/","title":{"rendered":"Ant Edwards, Kon Knueppel, and the generation coming for Steph Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every day that runner\u2019s knee keeps Steph Curry off the court is a day he can\u2019t spend rewriting the NBA record books.<\/p>\n

Earlier this season, Curry passed Michael Jordan for most 40-point games after turning 30<\/a>. He extended his franchise record for All-Star selections<\/a>. He passed Paul Pierce and moved into the shadow of Tim Duncan on the league\u2019s all-time scoring list.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the biggest, most sacred records to Curry\u2019s name aren\u2019t going anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least not for a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once he returns from his injury, Curry will keep adding to his career record of 4,233 3-pointers. And neither he nor anyone else has come close to touching his season-high of 402 3s since he set the record in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curry revolutionized the game with his 3-point prowess and jump-shooting audacity. He entered a league that was played from the inside out, with 3-pointers often serving as an end-of-clock bailout rather than a lethal tool. Now, players have molded to Curry\u2019s style, in which 3-pointers \u2014 and the math that comes with them \u2014 are everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teams, on average, take more than twice as many 3s per game now than they did during Curry\u2019s rookie season. Emboldened by Curry Ball, the next generation of players stretch their range and work on their jumpers much more diligently than in eras past. Even 7-footers shoot 3s now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That environment, as long as the 3-point proliferation continues, is ripe to generate a 3-point king to overtake Curry \u2013 someday. Even Curry knows it. In an exclusive interview with The Standard in February, Curry said he \u201cnever thought\u201d his records were unbreakable. Leave that status to Wilt Chamberlain\u2019s 100-point game, Jerry Rice\u2019s career receiving yards mark, or Cal Ripken\u2019s consecutive games played streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a strange twist, Curry is kind of rooting for someone to walk his records down.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever unbreakable,\u201d Curry told The Standard. \u201cBut just the loftiness of what it would take to catch and surpass, knowing I\u2019m still hopefully going to add more to the total before it\u2019s all said and done. It\u2019s kind of cool to have something to pay attention to over the next decade. Everything has to go right health-wise, shooting the ball consistently. \u2026 Volume is king now. So it\u2019s probably going to be a talking point for a while.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

There are two young players on Curry\u2019s radar: Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards and Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel. The former has made the most 3s ever at his ag (opens in new tab)<\/a>e and the latter is leading the league as a rookie. The Warriors played both of them in the month leading up to the All-Star break, and they agreed that, while Curry\u2019s records are daunting, his career 3-pointer mark is more realistically attainable than the 402 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m going to catch him,\u201d Edwards, Curry\u2019s bombastic Olympic teammate, told The Standard.<\/p>\n

The fact that Edwards became such an excellent 3-point shooter is a developmental miracle in itself. The knock on him coming out of Georgia was that his jumper lagged behind his other special tools. In short order, he turned himself into one of the league\u2019s best high-volume shooters. Edwards has logged a league-best 47 games of at least five made 3s since the start of last season, edging past Curry, who has 44.<\/p>\n

Edwards has 20 games left of his sixth NBA season. Through Curry\u2019s first six seasons, he converted 1,191 3-pointers. Edwards is already at 1,289.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet catching Curry will require years of consistent shooting production. Curry\u2019s current injury, which will knock him out at least four more games, is a reminder of how much health plays a factor in accumulating counting stats. Curry is still the only player to eclipse 4,000 3s (only James Harden has more than 3,000), hitting an average of 4.5 per game for 16 seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too soon to project another decade of health and 3-point pace for Edwards. It\u2019s even harder to do so for Knueppel, who\u2019s merely a rookie. <\/p>\n

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But the fact that Knueppel is even mentioned in these conversations is a stamp on his remarkable first season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe might catch him,\u201d Edwards, 24, said. \u201cThe white boy from Charlotte, right? He\u2019s good. \u2026 Either me or Kon Knueppel. I\u2019m a big fan of Kon Knueppel. He can really shoot the ball.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Knueppel became the fastest player ever to reach 100 3s, doing so in 29 games; the previous record was 41. He has already passed Curry\u2019s rookie record for most 20-point games on 50\/40\/90 shooting \u2014 a shooter\u2019s holy trinity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But Knueppel is more than just a novelty; he\u2019s having one of the most impressive shooting seasons ever (opens in new tab)<\/a>. While Curry was sidelined, Knueppel became the fastest player ever to reach 200 3-pointers and last week set the rookie record for made triples.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s shooting 43.5% from deep and could become the first rookie ever to hit 40% of his 3s while taking at least eight per game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No rookie as recent as a decade ago would\u2019ve even been permitted to take eight 3s per game. Knueppel recognizes how much things have changed yet how strong Curry\u2019s 2016 record has remained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the 400 3s in a season \u2026 I view that as pretty close to unbreakable,\u201d Knueppel told The Standard. \u201cIt\u2019s up there in NBA history. I don\u2019t know if the total is as unbreakable, just because early in his career, he missed some games, missed some times with the ankles, but also just wasn\u2019t shooting as many as maybe players are shooting them today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"StephenHow a 21-year-old rookie Steph Curry stacks up to Kon Knueppel, 20, this season<\/p>\n

The closest anyone has come to Curry\u2019s 2016 3-point volume was Harden in 2018-19. Yet even then, Harden finished with 378 \u2014 at least a week\u2019s worth of 3s shy of Curry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen James was close, that got a little scary,\u201d Curry said. \u201cHalfway through the season, seeing if he could keep that pace up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no coincidence that Curry hit 402 3-pointers the year the Warriors went 73-9. He shot a blistering 45.4% on 11.2 attempts per game, and joined the 50\/40\/90 club that year, too. Entering the season finale, he needed eight 3s to cross 400. He went 10 for 19 in Oracle Arena. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think nobody wants to beat Steph\u2019s records, man,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIt\u2019s Steph Curry. I think nobody\u2019s out here like, \u2018I\u2019m gonna go get 400 3s this year.\u2019 Ain\u2019t nobody thinking like that but Steph Curry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Edwards\u2019 high for a season is 320. Knueppel is on pace to get within striking distance of 300 as a rookie. To reach 400 3-pointers in a season, a player needs to hit five a game and basically play the entire season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the time being, no one\u2019s doing that. But the race for 4,000 is on. And Curry, even after he retires, won\u2019t miss it. A \u201cchase,\u201d he said, will be reason for him to tune in to every game.<\/p>\n

Asked if it\u2019d be bittersweet to see someone catch him, Curry said, \u201cNot at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSame way Ray had his moment when I was watching him beat Reggie, it\u2019s a passing-of-a-baton type thing. You do things that inspire other people, inspire a way to play, and see where they take it. Context always matters in how the story\u2019s told and all that, so I\u2019m not worried about that. It\u2019d be kind of cool to see somebody be around that long and shoot that consistently throughout their career to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curry isn\u2019t done yet. But Edwards, Knueppel, and the next generation are on their way.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want more ways to catch up on the latest in Bay Area sports? Sign up for the Section…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,164,6,66,932],"class_list":{"0":"post-641086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-golden-state-warriors","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-steph-curry"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116177060654809877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}